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AN ORDINAI~CE relating to soda fountains, soft drink bars and parlors,
restaurants, cafes, cafeterias, lunch rooms, cigar stands, card rooms and
card tables for hire, prescribing conditions for ~he issue a~d renewal of
card room licenses, ~uending Ordnance No. 749 as ~ended, and repealing
Ordinance No, 840.
THE GI~ 0F BRE~.'~RTON I~ES 0I~DAIN:
Section 1. That Section 1 of Ordinance No. 749 entitled "An or~in~ce
to license and regulate soda fo~mtains, soft drink bars and 9ar!ors, restau-
r~ts, cafes, cafeterias, l~mch rooms, cig, ar stands, and carpi tables, and
fixing penalties for the violation of the [~rovisions thereof, and repealing
all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith", dated December
21, 1921, as intended, be ~d the ss~e is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Sec, 1. It shall be ~lawful for any person, firm or corporation to
open, carry on, maintain, con~uct or o~oera'te any soda fountain~ soft drink
bar or parlor, restaurant, cafe, cafeteria~ lm-~ch z'oom~ cigar stand, confect-
ionery store or any card room or place where card tables are kemt for hire,
vd. thout first taking out and procu~dn$ a license and paying a fee tkerefor
as follows:
For every soda fotmtain~ soft drink bar or parlor, restaurant, cafe,
cafeteria, l~mch room, cigar stand or confecti~_~-~, ~.00 annually in ad-
vance, to,jotter with the further sz~ of 50~ per seat over and above the ntm~-
ber of ten seats in e~/ery restaurant, cafe, cafeteria or l~ch room, to~jether
with the further s~ of ~5.00 for each banquet room i~ such restaurat~t, cafe
cafeteria, or l~mch room; and for each and every card room or place where card
tables are kept for hire a fee of ~;5.00 per ann~.
Soft drink bar oVParlor as sontemplated by this ordinance shall be such
place where ice cre~ or soft drinks are served at a counter or a t tables or
places provided for the convenience of the trade for the constunption of such
ic~ cre~ or soft drinks.
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Section 2. That Section 2 of Ordinance No 749, dated December , ,
be and the s~e is hereby m~aended to read as follows:
"Sec. Z. No card room license shall be z'enewed or issued to amy person
except upon the following conditions, to-wit;
(a) There shall be maintained and operated upon the premises for which
the license is issued not less than five card ta0!es.
(b) There skall be maintained and operated upon the premises for which
the license is issued a licensed restaurant or hmck cotmter or cafeteria
serving hot meals during the hours when the card tables are in operation.
(c) There s~'~all be maintained and operated upon the premises for which
the license is issued a licensed tavern or place where beer and wine are !aw-
fully sold for cons~ption on the premises durin~d; she hours when the card tab-
les are in operation, provided, however, that no beer or wine shall at any
time be served or cons~ed by any person at a card table.
(d) There shall be maintained and operated upon the prsraises for which
the license is issued a licensed cij. ars ta~d or place wkere tobacco is sold
during the hours wken the card tables are in operation.
(e) The application for such license shall bear the approval of the
Chief of Police.
(f) That these conditions and the strict enforcement thereof are
sidered necessary by the City Ootmcil for the maintenance of order in the
City of Bremerton and the general welfare of the inhabitants thereof. That
the City Com~cil is of the opinion that tko maintenance and operatior~ of card
rooms and card tables is subject to abuses, ~d that unless properly restricted
and controlled, may result in viola'Sion of tke or,finances of the C try of
erton ~d laws of the State of Washington, and that the general welfare of the
inhabitants of the City of Bremerton will be served if card rooms and card 'tab-
les are operated only ~der the conditions specifi~d in section two kereof;
that the City Co~cil is' of the further opinion that the card tables skould be
allowed to be kept for hire only in places where transients a~'~d utmmrried men
are apt to congregrate and that they should not be permitted to operate as
such but only as a desirable adjm~ct of a place where meals m'~d 'beer and wine
are served and tobaccos are sold.
Section 3. That 0r~nance No. 840, entitled "An ordinance limiting tko
n~ber of licenses to ~ hereafter issued by the City of Bremerton, ,~ashin~ton,
for the operation of pool tables, billiard tables, and card tables, pool rooms,
billiard zmoms, and public card rooms" dated July 21, 1926, bs ~d the
hereby repealed.
Soction 4. If~any provision of this ordinance shall be adjudged unconsti-
tutiona! or void..for-~ny o~her reason, such adjudication shall not affect the
validity of any other provision of this ordinance.
0RDI~'~AI.~CE ~,~O. 1780 (Con't)
ApP~kC'VED on first reading this 18th day of ~'~Iay, 19.48.
PASSED on seco~d reading bY~tt~e City Go~acil of the City of Bremsrton,
signed by t~e ~ayor and attested by th~ City Cl~rk in aut]-~ont;Lcation of such
passage, this ~6th day of ~,~ay, 1948
ATTEST:
~ame ~as been pubt~hed accm~mg to
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